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lyla
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uninstall silverlight on mac os x

i want to remove silverlight from my mac os x completely - can you tell me how i do that? thank you :-) lyla

blanders
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Re: uninstall silverlight on mac os x

rm -rf /Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/Silverlight.plugin
rm -rf /Library/Receipts/Silverlight*.pkg
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft/Silverlight

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romeo_osma
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Re: uninstall silverlight on mac os x

what's rm -rf / stands for?Smile

blanders
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Re: uninstall silverlight on mac os x

romeo_osma:

what's rm -rf / stands for?Smile

rm = remove

-r = recursively

-f = force

If you open a terminal window on a Mac, you can use those commands to delete files.  You can also type "man rm" (without the quotes) in a terminal window for more details on the 'rm' command

 

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scottlepich
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Re: Re: uninstall silverlight on mac os x

In the interest of preventing someone a big heartache I feel like i should chime in here and let it be known that it would be a really, really bad idea run the "rm -rf" command with the root of the file system "/" as an argument: that would unlink your entire filesystem.  In other words erase all your files on your mac.  Don't do it. :)

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